Francesca Ciccarelli

Francesca Ciccarelli

Principal Group Leader

Francesca graduated in pharmaceutical chemistry (Master's degree) at the University of Bologna in 1998. After a year spent as a junior fellow at the Istituto Mario Negri, she joined the group of Peer Bork at the EMBL in Heidelberg. There she worked in comparative genomics and phylogenetics. Francesca got her PhD in Natural Science at the University of Heidelberg in 2003 and she stayed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Bork group until 2005. She then moved to Milan to establish her own research group at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO). At IEO, her group developed a systems-level approach to study cancer genes and also started to produce and analyse high throughput cancer genomic data.

In 2014 Francesca joined King's College London as Associate Professor (Reader) in Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics. Since 2015, she coordinates the quantitative Genomics, Epigenomics and Biobank Programme in the Division of Cancer Studies at King's. She has been a seconded Principal Investigator at the Francis Crick Institute since 2017 and was made Professor of Cancer Genomics at King's College London in 2018.

Qualifications and history

1998
University of Bologna, Italy
Master's in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
2003
University of Heidelberg, Germany
PhD in Natural Science
2005
European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Italy
Established research group
2014
King's College London, UK
Associate Professor in Cancer Genomics and Bioinformatics
2017
The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Seconded as Principal Investigator
2017
King's College London, UK
Professor of Cancer Genomics

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